Today's Event (7pm ET/11am (Wed.) AET)
"A New Politics of Freedom": Aziz Rana in conversation with Jefferson Cowie
Event Time: 7pm ET/11am (Wed.) AET
A New Politics of Freedom
Aziz Rana in conversation with Jefferson Cowie
Co-hosted with Boston Review!
Freedom has a dual legacy. On the one hand, it evokes struggles associated with the left, from abolition and anticolonialism to women’s and queer liberation. On the other hand, it has long been a watchword of the right, from neoliberals to white nationalists.
In Boston Review’s new issue “Reclaiming Freedom”, Aziz Rana leads a forum on the path to a different politics of freedom. In the United States, he argues, reactionary meanings of freedom at home have been emboldened by U.S. imperial power abroad. But their hold isn’t absolute: we can break it by building new forms of collective agency and self-rule. In this conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and forum respondent Jefferson Cowie, Rana discusses what freedom means and how to win it for all. You can find out more and register here.